Okay, seriously, what IS is with doctors who think that our time, as patients, isn't as important as their time, as doctors??
Normally, I just take Keith with me and he sits there and that's that since all they do is listen to the baby's heartbeat and measure my belly. Two weeks ago, however, they told me that next time I went in I would have to undress. I didn't know how Keith would deal with it, so I decided to talk him to his grandparent's house for this one. Unfortunately, the time I finally ask Arlin to babysit, he's out of state in UT taking care of his mom. Ugh. So, instead I ask Paul to come to my appointment and hang with Keith while I go in. Since my appointment was at 10:10 and they're ALWAYS late getting me in (like usually 20 minutes +) I told Paul to come at 10:15 just to be safe.
At 10:50 I was STILL sitting in the waiting room wondering what the heck was going on. I tell a receptionist "Uh, I've been here for like 40 minutes...is there a reason I'm still sitting here?" She says she'll check, blah blah. Anyway, she finally says that I'm next. 20 minutes later (no joke) they call me up, and I go in for my appointment. To make a long story short...they didn't even make me undress, so Paul came and took over an hour off work for nothing, and they told me I'll have to undress next week. GRRRR. Talk about SUPER frustrating. By blood pressure was a little higher this week than last time. hehe. They got me in a out fairly quickly last time. But basically their attitude is that an hour is a reasonable amount of time...for them to do about 4 things.
Why do they schedule 6 appointments in an hour if they can only see 3 people?? What is UP with that? Why is it that my time isn't important, and I'm supposed to be on the doctor's schedule? Now, I understand that sometimes things happen and they get behind, and they DO deliver babies, and that's, of course, not a predictable thing, but seriously an hour? To check my weight, urine, blood pressure (which of course, none of which the actual doctor does) and then another 20 minutes before the doctor comes in to listen to the baby's heartbeat and measures me? I'm sorry, but that seems kind of silly to me. Not to mention that she has a nurse practitioner, so she doesn't even see all her patients and it STILL takes me an hour to see the nurse...ugh. I'm so sick of going to the doctor. And next time, I WILL be finding another office. My last place was a lot quicker than this on average...and it was a low cost clinic!
Okay, rant over...had to get that out of my system. =)
2 comments:
It pretty much always takes me an hour, however we can call to see if the Dr. is running on time and if she's late they'll sign me in and call me to let me know when to come in. You might want to ask if you can do that for future apts. Sorry you're so frustrated... I guess that's just the way life goes though.
That truly stinks. I usually take Dylan with me, too, but we are usually out the door headed home 20-30 minutes after my scheduled appointment time. My last place wasn't quite as good. . .our pediatrician is good, too. I've never sat in the waiting room more than 10 minutes! Waiting times is one of my biggest things when I recommend or don't recommend doctors to people! I think they should have the pizza delivery rule--if you're not in within 30 minutes of your appointment, its free!
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